Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hollywood biographer Scott Eyman discussed his book, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America," and the impact of the silent film star's 1940 film, "The Great ...

In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, ...

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to... How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to ...

The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie; TIME, Nov. 4). Arise, My Love (Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Walter Abel; TIME, Oct. 28 ...

A couple of years ago, I decided to take the plunge and watch as many Charlie Chaplin films as I could get my hands on, checking out all the available DVDs from my county's library system and watching ...

Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...